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Federal (USV)

Private

Stephen B. Walker

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

From Holland, he enlisted in Company D, 8th Michigan Infantry on 11 September 1861 at age 18.

On the Campaign

He died of disease at Middletown, MD on 2 November 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Middletown but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service data from the State of Michigan.2

Birth

c. 1843

Death

11/02/1862; Middletown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869  [AotW citation 4313]

2   State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 8, pg. 137  [AotW citation 11961]